Delivery robots move medical supplies to help with COVID-19 response

Delivery robots move medical supplies to help with COVID-19 response

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/delivery-robots-move-medical-supplies-to-help-with-covid-19-response/

Nuro, one of the nation's best-funded self-driving vehicle startups, has begun using its robots to ferry food and medical supplies around a California stadium that has been converted into a coronavirus treatment facility, CEO Dave Ferguson announced on Wednesday.

"We realized that we could potentially use our R2 unmanned vehicles to provide truly contactless delivery of goods, where we remove any possible interaction between a driver dropping off goods and a person picking them up," Ferguson wrote. Contactless delivery could reduce the spread of COVID-19.